Malina Craig's Library
Pisgah Elementary
| ISBN | Title | Author | Description | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9780689716966 | The Girl Who Loved Wild Horses | Paul Goble | "There was a girl in the village who loved horses... She led the horses to drink at the river. She spoke softly and they followed. People noticed that she understood horses in a special way." And so begins the story of a young Native American girl devoted to the care of her tribe's horses. With simple text and brilliant illustrations. Paul Goble tells how she eventually becomes one of them to forever run free. | Aladdin |
| 9780547890715 | The Goodnight-Loving Trail | Russell Watson | ||
| 9780545030090 | The Hiccupotamus | Aaron Zenz | “There was a hippopotamus who hiccupped quite-a-lotamus. And every time he got’emus…he’d fall upon his bottomus!” Calamity ensues when an elephant, a centipede, and a rhinoceros try finding a cure for Hippo’s colossal case of hiccups. Author-illustrator Aaron Zenz’s creativity shines through in his colored-pencil artwork in this off-the-wall read-aloud. HIC! HIC! HIC! | Scholastic |
| 9780689844478 | The Keeping Quilt | Patricia Polacco | "We will make a quilt to help us always remember home," Anna's mother said. "It will be like heaving the family in backhome Russia dance around us at night. And so it was. From a basket of old clothes, Anna's babushka, Uncle Vladimir's shirt, Aunt Havalah's nightdress and an apron of Aunt Natasha's become The Keeping Quilt, passed along from mother to daughter for almost a century. For four generations the quilt is a Sabbath tablecloth, a wedding canopy, and a blanket that welcomes babies warmly into the world. In strongly moving pictures that are as heartwarming as they are real, patricia Polacco tells the story of her own family, and the quilt that remains a symbol of their enduring love and faith. | Simon & Schuster/Paula Wiseman Books |
| 9780153052125 | The Keeping Quilt | Harcourt School Publishers Staff, Patricia Polacco | A homemade quilt ties together the lives of four generations of an immigrant Jewish family, remaining a symbol of their enduring love and faith. | |
| 9780547889849 | The King and the Princess | |||
| 9780547023069 | The Life of Jack Prelutsky | Lisa Benjamin | ||
| 9780590414296 | The Magic School Bus Lost in the Solar System | Joanna Cole | On a special field trip in the magic school bus, Ms. Frizzle's class goes into outer space and visits each planet in the solar system. | Scholastic Press |
| 9780590921565 | The Magic School Bus Out of This World | Jackie Posner, Joanna Cole, Scholastic Productions | When Walker Elementary is threatened by a hurtling space rock, Ms. Frizzle and her students launch a field trip into outer space aboard a transformed Magic School Bus space ship, where they learn about asteroids, comets, and more. Original. | Scholastic Inc. |
| 9780547028439 | The Mysterious Bone | Robert Hirschfeld | ||
| 9780547021393 | The Mysterious Superhero | Winston White | ||
| 9780140548709 | The Mysterious Tadpole | Steven Kellogg | It soon becomes clear that Louis's pet tadpole is not turning into an ordinary frog. | Puffin |
| 9780021477296 | The Mystery of the Lost Colony | Candice F. Ransom | ||
| 9780399255878 | The Perfect Present | Fiona Roberton | Excited about his new dog, Henry does not even open the gift from his pet duck, Spot, who, feeling left out, packs a bag and goes away, only to be caught in a storm. | |
| 9780547017488 | The Return of the Yellowstone Grizzly Leveled Reader Level S Dra 40 | Knute Edwards | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt | |
| 9780525517214 | The Ring Bearer | Floyd Cooper | "Jackson's mom is getting married, and Jackson is nervous about his role and his new family"-- | Philomel Books |
| 9780663593538 | The River Grows | Gale Clifford | The growth and nature of rivers is explained. | |
| 9780975958001 | The Skin You Live In | Michael Tyler | Describes skin and its many attributes, including its color, its elasticity, and all the things it does. | Chicago Children's Museum (US) |
| 9780547017181 | The Storm | Celeste Albright | ||
| 9781442414020 | The Tree Lady | H. Joseph Hopkins | Documents the true story of the nature pioneer and activist who, after becoming the first woman to earn a science degree from the University of California, took a teaching position in the desert region of San Diego and single-handedly launched a movementto transform the area with trees and gardens. |